Alcohol, drug intoxication, or both at the time of burn injury as a predictor of complications and mortality in hospitalized patients with burns

The Journal of Burn Care & Rehabilitation
S R GrobmyerJ Hunt

Abstract

The objective of this study was to characterize the association between drug and alcohol intoxication at the time of injury and subsequent complications and mortality in hospitalized patients with burns. A computerized burn database was used to analyze data on 3047 consecutive adult (21 to 75 years) hospitalized patients with burns admitted between January 1982 and August 1994. Data for intoxicated (by history, blood alcohol content, or positive drug screen) and nonintoxicated patients were compared. The same analysis was also conducted on 429 consecutive adolescent patients with burns (ages 14 to 20 years) admitted during the same time period. The incidence of intoxication at the time of burn was 6.9%. No significant differences in age, sex, race, or burn size were noted. Intoxicated patients had a higher incidence of associated injuries. Skin graft loss, cellulitis, donor site conversion, hypotension, and pneumonia were more common in the intoxicated group. They also had more intensive care unit admissions, ventilator days, operations, transfusions, and total hospital days. Intoxicated patients had a lower mortality (7.1%) than patients in the control group (10.9%). Intoxication at the time of burn injury is an important pred...Continue Reading

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